“If you want guys to take responsibility on the field, they've got to feel like they can be grown adults off it and make good, strong decisions off it,
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“We take our accountability seriously, the rest of the system is not doing that
“The ball carrier is king, and then everyone else has got to follow after that.
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“I don’t think we should have biologically born men playing in competitive sports.